The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-28
ON RAIL AND CRossTIE.
Local and General Gossip in Railway
Circles.

! Circles.
! The first spike on the Georgia Southern
and Florida railroad was driven Friday.
! The Brunswick and Western will put on
to-day second line of sleepers between
Cincinnati and Jacksonville.
| The Louisville and Nashville is having
from one to two thousand feet of new sid
ings put in at every station in Alabama.
T. S. Cooper has been elected Treasurer
and General Accountant of the Americas
Preston and Lumpkin railroad to succeed
7. n. Hawkes. resigned.
| Col. J. w, Sloss, of Birmingham, Presi-
dent of the South and North Alabama Rail
road Company, il to resign on account of
i'll health and desire to retire from active
| business.
The work of laying the new heavy steel
rails along the Decatur and Montgomery
division of the Louisville and Nashville
road is progressing finely. 1t will probably
be completed in a few months.
The new Alabama Great Southern Rail-
way shops that are being built in Birming-
ham will bethe largest in Alabama, with
the exception of the Louisville and Nash
villes. The mainshop will be $50 feet long,
and will have asmoke tower % feet high.
Such progress has been made on the
Eutawvile Is. CO. railroad that it is ex-
pected that the rails will have been laid
across the Santee river bridge within the
next three months. The five piers of the
bridge have just been completed, the struc-
ture being regarded by railroad authorities
as strong and substantial. The character OF
the work is similar to that on the railway
bridge across the Savannah river at Angus
ia and Savannah.
The railroad earnings in South Carolina
for September show an extraordinary in
crease over the corresponding period of last
year. The increase varies from to 200
per cent. Only one road failed to show an
increase in earnings. The net increase in
earnings was $4,000, and the net.per cent.
increase 3313 per cent. Increase in
passenger earnings, Sl6,35O; increase
in freight earnings, Sl64, 435; in
crease in tonnage, 81, 543 tons. This is the
best showing ever made in one month by
the roads in that State.
General Freight and Passenger Agent
McDuffie of the Brunswick and Western
railroad asks the MORNING NEWS to correct
the rumor that there is an impending breach
between the Central and the Brunswick
and Western railroad and the Savannah.
Florida and Western people The rumor
started in Florida some time ago, and was in
vestigated by the MORNING NEWS at the
time without finding any foundation for it,
Mr.. McDuffie says that the relations be-
tween the Savannah Florida and Western
and the Brunswick and Western are per-
fectly harmonious.
The celebrated injunction of the minority
stockholders of the Northeastern railroad to
prevent the Richmond and Danville from
giving away twenty-one miles of that road
to w. B. Thomas and associates was ar
gued before the Supreme Court Fri
day. The argument was conducted
by Messrs. T. w. Rucker, E. K
Lumpkin and w. B. Burnett, of
Athens, and j. H. Lumpkin of Atlanta, in
behalf of the minority stockholders, by ex-
Senator Pope Barrow for the Northeastern,
by Hon. II. H. Carlton for w. B. Thomas,
and by A. J. Cobb, for the city of Athens.
The decision has not been given, but it is
thought the injunction will be sustained.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Northwestern Railroad Com
pany was held in Charleston Friday.
The gross receipts of the company during
the year were $554 ,252 81; operating ex-
penses, $780,, 419 25 total net revenue from
the road, $3.50 1873 66; ratio of expenses to
receipts II 16-l00 per cent During the past
cotton and 70 49S barrels of naval stores, as
against 133,307 bales of cotton and &C, 203
barrels of naval stores during the
preceding year. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: President,
A. F. Ravenel; directors, r. r. Bridgers,
w. T. Walters, H. B. Plant. B. F. New
conner, c. o. White, Henry Walters. In con-
sequence of the large expenditures which
are contemplated for the further improve
ment of the road no dividend has been de-
clared on the capital stock. No action was
taken in regard to the proposition to lease
the road to the Wilmington and Weldon
railroad, which was started last summer,
and it is possible that the negotiations haev
ended as suddenly as they began.